rpms/graphviz/devel graphviz.spec,1.14,1.15

John Ellson ellson at research.att.com
Mon Aug 29 17:06:49 UTC 2005


Oliver Falk wrote:

> On 08/29/2005 03:16 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 07:33 -0400, Oliver Falk wrote:
>>
>>> Author: oliver
>>
>>
>>
>>> Index: graphviz.spec
>>
>>
>>
>>> +BuildRequires:        /bin/ksh bison m4 flex tcl-devel >= 8.3 
>>> tk-devel swig
>>
>>
>> What's the reason for BR'ing /bin/ksh?
>>
>> I can't imagine a single reason for doing so under Linux.
>
>
> I took that from the specfile that comes with graphviz and didn't 
> think to much about it - it also was there since I took over 
> graphviz... Maybe John knows why!?
>
> Best,
>  Oliver



Tritely, because ksh was invented here and its too hard convincing 
people here to use
bash.    As I recall, iffe depends on it.

John




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